Famous Quotes

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This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and… — Jeanne Marie Laskas
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low… — Heinrich Harrer
The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other… — Rick Danko
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to… — Sebastian Horsley
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. — Sia Furler
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter… — Moses Mendelssohn
I remember once I went to go see a movie, and in front of me in line there was a little boy who looked so… — Zach Braff
Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the… — Zach Braff
People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on… — Zach Braff
I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there. — Zach Braff
There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity. — Tony Wilson
I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his… — Bill Bryson
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was… — Edward Furlong
MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod… — Ambrose Bierce
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I… — Gyorgy Ligeti
"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage. — Krishnananda Saraswati
In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous,… — Tom Shales
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually… — A. A. Gill
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public… — Stephen Holmes
Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good. — Terrence Mann
A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do… — James Keller
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady… — Ambrose Bierce
Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson! — Richard Branson
Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he… — Alex Ferguson
I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm… — Christopher Parker

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